International Arrivals to U.S. by Country of Residency Historical Visitation 1987-1997

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International Arrivals to U.S. by Country of Residency Historical Visitation 1987-1997

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Posted November 1998

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COUNTRY	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
Albania	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	3,326	1,786
Algeria	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2,365	3,140
Andorra	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,317	1,186
Angola	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,423	1,980
Anguilla	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	3,757	4,167
Antigua-Barbuda	18,695	22,064	22,379	24,646	25,081	25,721	26,084	23,600	21,597	21,981	23,610
Argentina	147,902	121,030	132,432	184,657	280,504	342,008	387,116	388,291	381,904	412,581	503,393
Armenia	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	3,362	3,476
Aruba	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	23,938	22,627
Australia	278,196	336,541	406,392	465,505	470,595	486,851	448,507	406,996	423,631	463,177	500,615
Austria	85,225	102,653	95,760	106,885	121,000	150,663	164,095	148,135	173,388	190,422	187,942
Azerbaijan	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	930	1,095
Bahamas	296,011	306,839	335,014	324,255	302,324	286,846	309,488	278,392	281,239	316,687	319,240
Bahrain	3,595	3,864	4,208	4,210	3,906	4,581	5,477	5,393	5,891	5,843	5,863
Bangladesh	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	10,891	9,464
Barbados	31,163	37,126	41,826	48,079	44,787	46,777	53,804	49,569	48,549	49,970	58,829
Belgium	98,803	114,427	115,439	138,134	149,099	171,146	185,836	192,277	206,134	236,899	241,366
Belize	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	21,529	23,106
Bermuda	7,151	6,189	6,473	7,073	7,697	7,430	6,846	6,531	6,634	6,813	7,307
Bolivia	16,633	17,707	18,179	18,404	21,192	25,303	23,864	24,420	22,158	25,318	28,376
Bosnia and Hezegovina	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	891	1,488
Botswana	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,555	1,652
Brazil	238,073	298,738	333,849	398,484	459,384	475,266	555,102	652,412	838,365	848,453	940,698
British Virgin Islands	11,943	14,611	15,576	16,033	16,503	15,820	16,347	15,092	15,014	21,467	23,045
Brunei	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,903	2,014
Bulgaria	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	7,687	7,027	7,153	8,301	8,754
Byelarus	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	3,143	3,481
Cameroon	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,382	1,586
Cape Verde	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,366	2,479
Cayman Islands	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	47,290	46,427
Canada	12,253,000	13,700,000	15,325,000	17,263,000	19,113,000	18,598,461	17,293,000	14,973,949	14,663,000	15,300,700	15,127,000
Canada Air Only	3,180,000	3,431,000	3,765,000	4,039,000	3,586,000	3,807,000	3,857,000	3,710,000	3,802,000	4,497,000	4,638,000
Chile	43,014	62,795	70,018	68,639	88,673	104,550	120,901	123,334	152,018	157,736	179,075
China/Hong Kong - (1)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	441,044	431,738
China (PRC) - (2)	N/A	23,000	82,000	66,000	76,000	124,000	177,663	157,887	166,520	198,759	209,609
Hong Kong	109,739	125,799	143,911	163,457	178,381	191,237	192,691	193,720	220,129	242,285	222,129
Colombia	148,223	146,751	152,319	154,998	160,755	188,808	212,688	225,555	233,012	249,851	317,736
Congo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,160	1,442
Costa Rica	56,167	57,317	68,409	80,113	84,937	102,491	119,966	116,936	118,119	122,939	131,240
Croatia	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	8,674	9,541
Cuba	1,789	2,286	26,069	36,871	42,379	22,338	25,384	14,978	8,224	4,388	4,788
Cyprus	4,953	6,043	6,042	6,108	6,170	6,640	7,119	6,633	8,675	10,103	10,608
Czech Republic	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	29,237	37,010
Czechoslovakia	5,112	6,780	8,984	15,871	17,651	24,100	23,144	34,981	50,601	14,115	13,281
Denmark	96,440	100,482	107,062	96,796	95,399	100,353	103,665	101,062	108,003	137,307	144,605
Dominica	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	14,825	14,826
Dominican Republic	104,315	129,272	157,011	174,752	162,322	171,161	188,683	191,573	175,878	176,239	190,522
Ecuador	62,589	55,681	64,215	71,592	79,989	87,035	89,554	96,663	97,770	99,863	126,077
Egypt	19,557	21,571	21,605	22,019	22,210	21,478	23,565	23,130	25,272	28,301	35,275
El Salvador	47,011	49,168	59,583	55,764	58,783	71,499	85,140	80,382	82,085	85,230	93,087
Estonia	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	4,000	4,904
Ethiopia	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	3,631	3,567
Fiji	4,495	4,409	5,038	4,549	4,767	5,403	4,824	5,068	5,370	5,375	5,529
Finland	51,746	73,968	92,992	103,411	93,151	83,716	69,116	62,754	70,291	78,841	82,190
France	544,435	618,506	653,685	716,036	770,230	795,444	844,644	823,192	921,630	987,126	978,327
French Polynesia	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2,760	3,016
Gabon	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,229	1,274
Gambia	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,645	1,234
Georgia	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2,269	3,034
Germany	952,119	1,153,359	1,076,385	1,202,826	1,430,193	1,691,663	1,826,757	1,622,835	1,847,973	1,996,824	1,994,296
Ghana	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	4,284	4,625	6,276	7,082	9,161
Greece	50,248	53,913	53,184	53,646	49,429	55,311	56,633	55,441	55,981	58,754	62,162
Grenada	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	7,073	7,655
Guadeloupe	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	12,299	11,077
Guatemala	86,462	98,982	114,591	110,722	121,807	123,358	141,424	134,684	131,105	131,360	134,545
Guinea	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2,108	3,504
Guyana	12,910	11,662	9,938	8,736	9,426	9,175	9,064	10,870	13,515	15,124	16,775
Haiti	76,001	80,474	74,031	68,111	54,822	42,243	37,876	31,613	53,711	49,368	52,190
Honduras	55,580	58,061	64,987	68,529	60,635	64,024	61,583	50,280	50,719	53,038	61,866
Hong Kong	109,739	125,799	143,911	163,457	178,381	191,237	192,691	193,720	220,129	242,285	222,129
Hungary	14,175	17,927	18,924	19,702	20,311	24,475	32,705	33,944	37,731	44,277	50,080
Iceland	13,358	15,420	13,531	13,742	15,183	16,221	18,150	16,746	16,836	21,433	24,306
India	96,279	109,519	106,908	110,087	109,557	105,790	102,339	103,930	123,499	143,058	173,327
Indonesia	28,809	31,240	36,640	43,320	44,441	47,746	53,245	53,922	67,875	78,867	86,959
Iran	16,689	12,828	15,625	17,419	12,883	12,577	12,101	10,870	9,885	7,896	7,231
Iraq	1,180	1,504	2,712	4,745	309	609	N/A	N/A	N/A	274	246
Ireland	96,021	111,172	105,429	99,161	101,980	118,229	122,435	150,956	149,430	205,231	217,278
Israel	133,351	150,659	156,289	161,722	169,912	160,051	186,409	189,139	216,419	231,347	260,052
Italy	318,815	356,513	354,920	395,783	478,853	589,837	555,785	526,537	524,892	525,246	580,261
Ivory Coast	4,404	4,518	4,612	5,096	5,098	5,149	5,468	5,880	6,600	6,346	5,855
Jamaica	155,562	182,321	189,639	187,117	164,076	148,270	181,290	179,719	196,175	201,690	213,910
Japan	2,128,481	2,542,140	3,080,396	3,231,495	3,319,934	3,652,828	3,542,546	3,804,551	4,598,354	5,182,555	5,367,578
Jordan	13,091	15,184	17,209	16,831	13,265	12,165	12,428	11,386	11,526	13,423	12,471
Kampuchea	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,926	2,011
Kazakhstan	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	3,374	2,690
Kenya	6,425	7,077	7,151	7,271	6,588	7,394	6,998	8,120	9,652	10,648	11,977
Korea, Republic of	72,040	92,433	149,323	211,260	278,182	341,311	408,213	498,259	592,327	749,474	746,550
Kuwait	19,272	21,322	19,843	15,894	10,455	16,656	20,502	18,140	20,936	21,395	24,963
Latvia	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	4,501	5,137
Lebanon	14,298	19,513	14,767	11,582	9,178	10,267	10,242	9,662	9,314	9,976	11,824
Liberia	5,138	4,779	5,159	4,156	2,672	1,435	N/A	N/A	N/A	992	1,604
Liechtenstein	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,869	2,022
Lithuania	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	6,200	6,052
Luxembourg	7,818	9,681	8,752	10,532	11,910	13,738	15,796	15,245	18,077	19,192	20,797
Macau	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	4,627	5,037
Macedonia	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	3,187	2,797
Malawi	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	825	1,006
Malaysia	34,858	39,020	40,472	42,563	42,752	47,362	49,976	54,640	67,395	80,066	79,836
Mali	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,217	1,738
Malta	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	6,382	7,498
Martinique	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	12,437	11,527
Mauritius	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,321	1,651
Mexico	5,047,220	7,730,090	7,040,940	7,040,660	7,406,290	10,872,230	9,824,080	11,321,000	8,016,000	8,530,000	8,445,000
Mexico (Air Only)	734,284	860,453	1,036,920	1,140,116	1,230,752	1,343,782	1,382,452	1,430,872	889,404	1,091,812	1,303,786
Monaco	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	5,091	5,214
Montserrat	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,811	1,462
Morocco	6,874	9,158	9,379	9,206	8,602	8,607	9,717	10,183	11,236	12,174	14,630
Nepal	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	3,298	4,197
Neth. Antilles	42,428	38,494	42,525	48,081	48,055	49,129	52,804	48,125	37,592	36,560	36,353
Netherlands	201,692	247,860	260,840	284,203	316,609	342,034	378,904	370,803	408,153	440,243	473,420
New Caledonia	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,797	1,589
New Zealand	132,580	152,150	166,774	173,844	145,306	139,515	133,746	119,412	141,633	148,588	161,476
Nicaragua	15,832	17,052	11,053	21,867	37,384	36,662	43,216	39,420	34,920	33,636	38,071
Nigeria	26,161	26,808	22,449	19,444	22,268	19,001	19,262	16,082	15,700	19,256	24,414
Norway	86,279	107,091	105,147	103,960	93,691	103,863	106,437	101,094	103,096	124,078	140,446
Oman	2,182	1,995	2,047	2,186	2,329	2,784	N/A	N/A	N/A	3,384	3,834
Pakistan	26,770	32,924	31,364	38,302	33,151	31,526	29,904	31,227	35,176	30,750	34,785
Panama	56,939	55,654	49,286	58,975	63,444	66,068	73,647	71,489	71,344	75,852	81,968
Papua New Guinea	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,743	1,666
Paraguay	6,636	7,187	6,998	8,563	9,840	12,004	13,779	14,653	18,851	18,772	20,198
Peru	74,332	74,754	99,064	114,696	115,156	114,776	128,216	118,388	126,775	129,763	145,019
Philippines	82,131	94,575	89,155	98,335	103,463	117,031	115,492	106,082	109,583	122,756	132,285
Poland	47,944	48,330	63,202	60,835	51,650	45,831	42,295	43,372	48,452	61,191	72,756
Portugal	27,245	32,489	35,468	34,857	36,206	45,378	49,247	45,963	49,649	56,847	62,877
Qatar	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	4,199	5,208
Romania	4,902	5,741	4,776	13,904	12,664	10,267	10,335	12,508	13,307	18,199	20,630
Russia	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	64,726	80,166	94,093	112,046	120,681
Saudi Arabia	44,758	48,647	48,526	48,258	51,148	60,966	66,679	63,994	64,833	56,792	67,962
Senegal	4,433	4,069	3,540	4,072	4,226	4,355	4,760	4,855	4,876	5,306	5,831
Sierra Leone	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,396	1,232
Singapore	40,807	45,117	48,567	53,565	57,309	64,953	71,628	79,498	102,755	114,713	127,109
Slovakia	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	14,760	13,877
Slovenia	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,198	2,171
South Africa	36,542	38,234	36,555	38,505	40,924	58,161	75,094	77,691	84,434	94,576	103,567
Spain	129,555	176,775	201,947	242,670	291,646	343,922	309,695	274,597	302,083	324,822	328,024
Sri Lanka	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	5,525	6,105
St. Kitts-Nevis	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	10,154	10,097
St. Lucia	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	13,486	14,500
St. Vincent-Grenadines	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	4,725	5,136
Sudan	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	790	1,018
Suriname	16,461	17,129	10,315	13,807	13,855	10,498	5,196	4,850	7,117	6,849	6,508
Sweden	186,179	239,964	281,261	282,163	260,424	261,728	224,281	204,293	219,283	268,975	292,424
Switzerland	239,299	282,598	274,885	293,652	304,541	321,725	341,591	349,237	396,801	417,064	410,209
Syria	4,849	9,924	7,768	7,249	5,175	7,881	6,444	6,477	4,993	5,554	6,607
Taiwan	N/A	183,000	158,000	239,000	268,000	287,000	326,744	378,832	412,708	414,541	442,780
Tanzania	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2,242	3,124
Thailand	26,401	32,650	36,173	42,336	47,089	62,339	68,779	75,101	91,220	102,679	91,664
Tonga	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2,026	2,283
Trinidad & Tobago	84,695	94,862	99,213	94,513	85,814	81,415	86,804	80,480	82,397	83,923	96,458
Tunisia	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	3,850	6,817
Turkey	18,171	20,491	23,449	31,048	32,064	35,241	40,745	33,563	44,769	52,680	68,254
Turks and Caicos Islands	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	11,762	12,955
Uganda	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2,016	2,278
Ukraine	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	12,987	14,921	17,460	18,495	15,149
United Arab Emirates	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	26,692	29,265
United Kingdom	1,362,479	1,827,831	2,221,871	2,243,792	2,495,354	2,823,983	2,999,301	2,772,345	2,888,195	3,246,237	3,720,979
Uruguay	14,251	15,780	17,192	20,487	25,417	28,231	36,345	36,750	45,967	49,037	58,657
U.S.S.R. - (3)	9,667	30,389	56,818	81,124	100,233	90,763	N/A	N/A	N/A	892	545
Uzbekistan	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2,394	2,568
Venezuela	153,479	208,505	219,345	264,397	310,735	372,313	444,355	415,610	511,327	447,276	487,981
Vietnam	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	3,724	4,217
Western Samoa	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,437	1,224
Yemen	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,826	1,900
Yugoslavia	26,247	28,377	28,092	29,203	27,637	15,395	13,034	19,508	19,017	11,089	11,570
Zaire	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2,537	1,083
Zambia	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2,190	2,295
Zimbabwe	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	4,889	5,556

N/A = Not Available

1 - Arrivals are a combined total for Peoples Republic of China and Hong Kong

2 - Arrivals from Peoples Republic of China only

3 - In 1992 the arrivals were reported as former USSR. In 1993 arrivals from Russia and the the Ukraine are broken out separately.

Note: Only countries with >1000 arrivals in 1997 are shown on this chart.

Source: Tourism Industries International Trade Adminstration, 6/98.